[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 178 (Thursday, December 3, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S12320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:22 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 320. An act to amend the National Manufactured Housing 
     Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that 
     weather radios be installed in all manufactured homes 
     manufactured or sold in the United States.
       H.R. 515. An act to prohibit the importation of certain 
     low-level radioactive waste into the United States.
       H.R. 1242. An act to amend the Emergency Economic 
     Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide for additional 
     monitoring and accountability of the Troubled Asset Relief 
     Program.
       H.R. 2873. An act to provide enhanced enforcement authority 
     to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
       H.R. 3634. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, 
     Arkansas, as the ``George Kell Post Office''.
       H.R. 3963. An act to provide specialized training to 
     Federal air marshals.
       H.R. 3980. An act to provide for identifying and 
     eliminating redundant reporting requirements and developing 
     meaningful performance metrics for homeland security 
     preparedness grants, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolutions, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 129. Concurrent resolution congratulating the 
     Sailors of the United States Submarine Force upon the 
     completion of 1,000 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine 
     (SSBN) deterrent patrols.
       H. Con. Res. 197. Concurrent resolution encouraging banks 
     and mortgage servicers to work with families affected by 
     contaminated drywall and to consider adjustments to payment 
     schedules on their home mortgages that take into account the 
     financial burdens of responding to the presence of such 
     drywall.
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  At 5:52 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 3570. An act to extend the statutory license for 
     secondary transmissions under title 17, United States Code, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4154. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to 
     prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance 
     burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, 
     to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, to 
     reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of 
     budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending 
     legislation, enforced by the threat of annual, automatic 
     sequestration, and for other purposes.

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